Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury celebrates with Kenny Williams (34) following a touchdown run in the fourth quarter of a game against West Virginia last Saturday.

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George Schroeder
| USA Today Sports

When it comes to Kliff Kingsbury, it's way too easy to focus on the peripheral. Maybe because it's measurably true: Texas Tech's coach is hotter than your coach. But the real beauty is in what he's done in his first seven games as a head coach.

Texas Tech might be the most improbable unbeaten in major college football, considering the No. 9 Red Raiders have done it largely with true freshman quarterbacks. Kingsbury's work with Baker Mayfield (a walk-on) and then with Davis Webb should probably be evaluated in light of his previous tutelage of Case Keenum at Houston and Johnny Manziel at Texas A&M; ...